On Thursday 12 February 2009 01:56:11 Rajko M. wrote:

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 05:28:49 pm ianseeks wrote:

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HI

I've got this board running a driver version 173.14.15 (not available on the nvidia site - latest there is 173.14.12). This driver is completely pants for KDE4, it is slow as molasses going uphill in the snow and artifacts all over the place (its finewith KDE3.5) - does anyone know if this will ever be upgraded to work with KDE4? I've tried all the other beta versions 177.x, 180.x and they all exit the install script saying that this card is not known about and wont be installed.

Do ihave to upgrade my card to work with KDE4? If so, any recommendations? I'm not a gamer so i don't need any monster card. It can be ATI or NVidia but it needs to to have some life in it and not be deprecated as my current one seems to be.

thanks

Ian

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173. 14.16-pkg0

I use this, and some of the most annoying stuff is solved, the most prominent is garbled screen with OpenOffice window active.

Speed is better then before, but it is not a miracle. Well, not with 22" wide screen and some 1500 MHz Athlon XP.

Apropos upgrade, here is the comparative list of 8 series: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

All GeForce: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html

I would look those with higher memory bandwidth that still fit in the budget. Lower in the list are modls that can be worse than FX5500, so watch carefully.

-- Regards, Rajko

I have found the source to most of my pain. The "compositing type "was set to "Xrender" instead of "opengl" - i only found it by accident and now it seems to work a hell of a lot faster. Thanks for all the responses..... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org